Political Roundup: Early voting is down almost 40% from 2020
Gaisman Park in Berclair includes a community center that became an early voting site this year. The park and center have come to symbolize the Berclair area’s diversity and status as a community of immigrants. (Bill Dries/The Daily Memphian)
Also, Tennessee Senators Marsha Blackburn and Bill Hagerty push claims of noncitizens voting in a new call for federal officials to act despite evidence voter purges in other states are removing citizens entitled to vote.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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